• Michael Gross, who played Meredith Baxter’s husband on Family Ties, learned she is gay back in 2005 — and is fully supportive.

• It might take James Franco’s own words to explain how his General Hospital stint is “performance art.” Or just make it that much more confusing.

• The men who want to be Chile’s next president are hoping the gay vote will put them over the edge, with new campaign ads featuring homos, like this one from right-wing billionaire Sebastian Pinera. This, in a country where, just 10 years ago, homosexuality earned you a jail sentence.